NSW: People rescued from yacht given medical all clear

AAP General News (Australia)
02-03-2001
NSW: People rescued from yacht given medical all clear

EDS: Direction of travel clarified on further information. Trade Winds was sailing
from Sydney to Hobart, not Tasmania to Sydney as earlier reported.



By Karen Michelmore

SYDNEY, Feb 3 AAP - Four people rescued from a stricken yacht off eastern Victoria
have been given the medical all clear, authorities said today.

Three men and a woman, including the yacht's owner Michael Robinson, of Sydney, were
rescued this morning from the battered 14-metre yacht Trade Winds about 106km south of
Gabo Island, in treacherous seas, the …